Books
- The Book of Mysteries, also known as The Book of Secrets, an ancient Essene text found in fragmentary form among the Dead Sea Scrolls
- The Book of Secrets (novel), a novel by M. G. Vassanji, published in 1994 and the winner of the first Giller Prize for Canadian fiction
- Muhammad ibn Zakariya ar-Razi's Kitab al-asrar (English: Book of Secrets, Latin: Liber secretorum), a medieval alchemy treatise
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